Receptacle for caps or cartridges.



No. 735 757. V PATENTED AUG. 11 1903.

J. W. G'RUBBS.

REGEPTAULE FOR GAPS OR CARTRIDGES.

APPLIGATION FILED we. 20, 1902..

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PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH W'ARNER GRUBBS, OF GARTERVILLE, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO BENJAMIN F. MOSIER AND BYRON COOPER, OF OAR- IERVILLE, MISSO URI.

RECEPTACLE FOR CAPS OR CARTRIDGES.

SPEGIFZCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,757, dated August 11, 1903.

Application filed August 20, 1902.

To coZZ wire/1t it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH WARNER GRUBBS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oarterville, in the county of Jasper and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Receptacle for Gaps or Cartridges, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the receptacles for caps, cartridges, and similar articles whereby they may be safely stored in position to be readily accessible when required and procharge.

The improvement which is the subject of the present application may be employed for protecting and storing caps, cartridges, or similar articles of any size or employed for any purpose, but is more particularly adapted to the storage and preservation of the caps employed by miners in their blasting operations; and the invention consists in a casing having a discharge-aperture, a belt containing the cartridges or caps spaced apart and adapted to be removed through said aperture, and a cover to the casing having an aperture adapted to register with the casing-aperture and to cut off the casing-aperture when rotated.

Other novel features of the invention will appear in the annexed description and be specified in the claims following.

In the drawings illustrative of the invenvention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device closed or with the discharge-aperture cut of. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device opened or in position to permit the discharge of the cap-belt, a portion of the cover being broken away to show the interior arrangement of the cap-belt. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a portion of the cap-belt detached. Fig. & is a detached detail illustrating the manner of constructing portions of the casing and its cover.

The casing will preferably be circular and of any suitable size and adapted to contain any required number of the caps or cartridges.

The casing is represented at 10 preferably in the form of a short cylinder with an aperture 11 in one side. The caps or cartridges are represented at 12 connected at regular Serial No. 120.427. (No model.)

intervals to a belt 13, the latter preferably of elastic material, so that the cartridges or caps will be held with some degree of force by the belt.

The belt 13 will preferably be formed in three strips, as shown, connected at intervals,

and the cartridges or caps inserted by weaving each one between the spaced connectionpoints of the three-part belt, as shown in Fig. 2, so that two sections of the belt engage one side of the caps or cartridges and one section engages the opposite sides intermediately of the two sections. By this simple means the caps or cartridges are held in position with sufficient firmness to retain them in place, while at the same time they are readily detachable when required for use.

The cover 15 of the receptacle is formed with a box-engaging rim 14, having a depending flange 1%, which is provided with an aperture 16 at one point, corresponding to the aperture 11 in the casin g 10 and adapted when the cover is rotated to register therewith, and also, as will be obvious, to cut oif the aperture by the rotation of the cover in either direction, as indicated in Fig. 1.

The depending flange 14 will. preferably be narrower than the full depth of the casing except at the point where the aperture 16 ocours, as indicated, to save weight and reduce the friction.

IVhen the receptacle is charged, a short section of the belt 13 will be left without the cartridges or caps, and this vacant section protrudes through the aperture 11 and also through the aperture 16, as indicated in Fig. 1, the protruding end of the belt affording a finger-grip for the operatorin removing the cartridges,which is done by rotating the cover 15 until the apertures 11 16 register, when the belt of cartridges may be withdrawn to any desired extent, as shown in Fig. As many of the cartridges as may be required will then be removed, and no greater number than those required for the time being should be withdrawn, so that after the required nnm= her are extracted from the belt the cover 15 may be rotated to cut oil the aperture 11 and confining the unused caps or cartridges within the casing. The superfluous empty portion IFO of the belt may then be cut oif outside the casing, leaving a suflicient end to form a finger-grip, as before, or otherwise disposed of, as may be preferred.

If it is desired to save the belt for the purpose of recharging it with caps or cartridges, it can be wrapped around the cylinder as a reel or otherwise preserved. Generally, however, the belt will be so inexpensive that it will be simply cut off and thrown away as fast as emptied of the caps. By this simple arrangement the caps or cartridges may be preserved and protected within the casing and all danger from exposure obviated.

The device may be employed for protecting and preserving caps or cartridges of any kind, but, as before stated, is especially applicable to the preservation and protection of the caps employed by miners in their blasting operations. Heretofore these caps have generally been inclosed in casings which had to be uncovered every time a-cap was required, the caps being thereby exposed to the danger of fire from the miners lamps or the drippings from hot oil and also exposed to dampness and moisture from the drippings of the mine.

Many very serious accidents have occurred in mines by the exposure of the miners caps to fire when the casings containing them have been opened for the extraction of the caps; but all danger from this source will be entirely obviated as the particular cap or caps required for use are exposed when the small portion of the case (represented by the aperture 11) is exposed, and it will be noted that this comparatively small aperture is the only portion of the casing ever exposed while the device is in use, and in practice a portion only of this small aperture need be uncovered, as an aperture just large enough to permit one of the caps to be drawn through it is all that is necessary to be made.

It will be seen that the cover may be conveniently rotated with relation to the box, the latter being grasped by the portion which is not surrounded by the rim of the cover, the depending flange 14 extending for only a comparatively small portion of the perimeter of said cover. Hence the device is capable of being operated with extreme facility to place the apertures 11 and 16 into or out of alinement. It will also be noted that the protruding portion of the flexible belt 13 will serve as a stop to engage the portion of the flange 14 forming the lower closure of the aperture 16 and effectually prevent the removal of the cover unless considerable force is employed, and thus prevent accidental displacement of the cover. The protruding portion of the belt 13 also serves as a packing or yieldable brake between the flange 14 and the adjacent side of the casing to check the movement and prevent the parts being too easily separated or working loose. This is an important feature of the invention and adds materially to its efficiency by preventing the too easy separation of the parts, and thus forming an additional security to the contents.

The device may be made of any suitable material and may be covered with moistureproof material or incased in a moisture or non-conducting envelop, if required.

The device may be modified in minor particulars without affecting the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed i s- 1. A deviceof the class described, consisting of a shallow box having a vertical aperture in the side thereof and a cover rotatable thereon, said cover having a narrow rim eugaging the upper portion of the box and said rim of said cover being provided with a flange depending into alinement with the bottom of the box and having an aperture corresponding with the aperture in the side of the box.

2. A device of the class described, consisting of a shallow box having a vertical aperture in the side thereof and a cover rotatable thereon, the rim of said cover being provided with a narrow rim having a flange depending into alinement with the bottom of the box, and having an aperture corresponding to the aperture in the side of said box, in'combination with a web disposed within the box, protrudin g through the apertures in the box and cover and disposed between the depending flange of the cover and the side of the box when the cover is rotated to bring the vertical openings out of alinement, thus constituting a packing or frictional device to retard the movement of the cover with relation to the box.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as w my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH WARNER eRUBBs.

\Vitnesses THOMAS W. HILL, LEANDER PITMAN.

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